Fishing-rod guide.



No. 868,563 PATENTED OCT. 15, 1907. E. HOLZMANN.

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UNITED STATES ERNEST HOLZBIANN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FISHING-ROD GUIDE.

Original application filed March 16, 1906, Serial No. 306,358.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 1907.

Divided and this application filed February 25, 1907.

Serial No. 359,220.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that 1, lDnNEs'r IIOLZMANN, a citizen of the United Statesof America,'residing in the borough oi Brooklyn in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvemenis in Fishing-Rod Guides, of which the following is a sp cification.

This invention relates to guides for fishing rods, and has for itsobject to construct a guide which is adjustable upon the rod and isprovided with a device to prevent the line from winding around the guideas it runs out on a cast.

hly guide is described and shown in my application Serial Number 306,358of which this forms a division.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side view of a pole to whichmy guides are attached; Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the guides drawnto an enlarged scale; Fig 3 is a view at right angles to Fig. 2; Fig. 4is a View similar to that shown in Fig. 2, iug means open for theadjustment of the guide to the rod; Fig. 5 is a perspective of the guidefor the tip and Fig. (i is a side View of a pole similar to Fig. 1 butdrawn to a larger scale and showing the pole partially broken away.

It is commonly known that a fishing rod used for casting soon becomesbent from the repeated strains in the same direction to which it isthereby subjected. To remedy this defect I have provided an adjustableguide of the character shown in the accompanying drawings. As appearstherefrom; the guide consists of an agate ring 10, surrounded by a metalband 11, which is secured to a clamping device 12. For the latter I haveshown a spring eye having a free shank 13 provided with a suitable meansfor securing the same to the shank 14, which is attached to the metalband 11. A screw 15 passing through a hole in the free shank and engagedin a screw threaded hole in the shank 14 serves this purpose. A stop 16may be advantageously added with the clamp- 1 toward the outer end ofthe free shank, so as to render the screw more efficient. Similarly thetip guide 17 may be secured by means of lugs 18 projecting from itsinner end and drawn together by means of a screw 19. By making theguides adjustable in this manner they may be moved not onlycircumierentially around the pole, but also lengthwise, and thefisherman is thereby cnabled to counteract the bending of his pole byadjusting his guides to a position on the opposite side of the pole andat any point desired throughout its length.

In casting, another difficulty is encountered through the tendency ofthe line to belly out between the guides towards the end of the castwhen the reel continues to run at high speed, while the speed of thecasting weight, and with it the running out of the line, decreases.Accompanying this tendency is the danger that the line will wrap itselfaround the pole or loop around the guides. To avoid this I lift therunning rings 10 well away from the pole and provide guards 20 whichserve to throw the line up and off the guide post in case it should tendto wrap itself around the same. This guard device may be variouslyconstructedand I do not limit myself to the particular form shown.

I claim as my invention 1. A guide for fishing rods, in combination witha guard therefor, substantially as described.

2. A guide for fishing rods provided with a clamp adjustablecircumferentially and lengthwise of the rod, in combination with a guardtherefor, substantially as described.

3. A guide for fishing rods having means for holding; the running ringsat a distance from the pole, in combination with a guard therefor,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST I-IOLZMANN.

Witnesses WALTER Anna, HUBERT HOWSON.

